Renaissance Man of Dance
Saburo Teshigawara is a highly imaginative choreographer who fills his performances with ideas. “Dance is not simple. But dance can be simple. And it can also be complex. What is important is clarity.”
“There is no such thing as absolute silence. The key is not rejecting it but how to accept it.”
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Silence / Noise
Absolute zero in science is the temperature at which everything approaches a state of perfect rest; a parenthesis during which the invisible suddenly become apparent. Absolute Zero in dance is an exploration by Teshigawara of the idea of perfect stillness as order in a chaotic world. The piece is rife with juxtapositions: movement, sound and stage pictures clashing in this voyage of discovery. This trilogy consists of two solos and a duet in which Teshigawara’s declared intent is “to attempt to reach unattainable eternal immobility through dance”.
Review
“… two solos, a duo, thesis-antithesis-synthesis that mixed the most extreme opposites with a precious coherence. The man constantly passes from an apparently disjoined frenzy to the most profound calm, from the inhuman to tenderness, from stiffness to suppleness with extraordinary brutality and mastery.”
Jaques-Olivier Gadia in La Dépêche